NY Times: Mapping Your End-of-Life Choices

Jane Brody does a great job laying out the finer points of health care directives and explains some of the common pitfalls as well as profiling a new company trying to help individuals navigate these difficult issues.

The San Francisco-based service, called Good Medicine Consult & Advocacy, is the brainchild of Dr. Jennifer Brokaw, 46, who was an emergency room physician for 14 years and saw firsthand that the needs and wishes of most patients were not being met by the doctors who cared for them in crisis situations.